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theatre fundraiser and all around nutcase.
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juliedicaro.bsky.social
Despite my best efforts, too many people still don’t know about Mike Tirico. Here’s what I wrote about him in my book:
Both John Buccigross and Matthew Berry continue to have big, public-facing roles with ESPN, despite the allegations against them. As with seemingly all men in sports media accused of sexual misconduct, the public eventually forgives, forgets, and then lashes out at those who remind them. Some of these men go on to become the faces of sports coverage for their outlets. Mike Tirico, for example, was disciplined by ESPN decades ago for one of the most egregious allegations of sexual harassment/assault I’ve heard of, in addition to multiple allegations of stalking and harassment by other female colleagues. In his book ESPN: The Uncensored Story, Michael Freeman recounts Tirico’s inexplicable behavior toward a work colleague at a house party. After ignoring the woman’s pleas that he leave her alone, Tirico, who had just met the woman for the first time, continued to follow her around the party and insist he was in love with her. When the woman, fed up with Tirico’s harassment, left the party, he followed her out to her car and attempted to block her from leaving. When she rolled down the driver’s window to tell him to get out of the way, Tirico reached into the car and shoved his hand between her legs. In another case, Freeman writes that Tirico followed a woman’s car after she rejected his proposition to “throw you on the table right here and fuck your brains out.” This wasn’t the only harassment allegation against Tirico. In the book Those Guys Have All the Fun, James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales write that at least six other women came forward with stories about Tirico. In 1992, ESPN suspended him for three months and told him to seek counseling. After that, Tirico began a meteoric rise at ESPN, eventually becoming the host of ESPN’s crown jewel, Monday Night Football. Tirico was put front and center by ESPN, despite his disturbing history, and I often think of the women he left in his wake as he went on to call NBA and college basketball games, US Open tennis matches, and World Cup soccer. In 2016, before #MeToo exploded on Twitter, Tirico left ESPN for NBC, which would, the following year, fire Matt Lauer for similarly predatory behavior. Like at ESPN, Mike Tirico became the face of NBC Sports, replacing Bob Costas as the lead studio host for coverage of the Olympics. And, in an impressively tone-deaf move by NBC, they had Tirico interview snowboarder Shaun White about a sexual harassment lawsuit against White. When asked, NBC admitted they knew of Tirico’s past but dismissed it as something that happened long ago.
February 2, 2026 at 8:56 PM
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simifresh.bsky.social
the bushes were people 😂
February 9, 2026 at 2:26 AM
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dytsras.bsky.social
In case you missed the moment.

Art is powerful
February 9, 2026 at 2:05 AM
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katz.theracket.news
If you didn’t catch the significance of the exploding transformers in Bad Bunny’s halftime show, I gotcha. Here’s one of a bunch of pieces I wrote from/on Puerto Rico about the crisis—and Trump’s role in it. slate.com/news-and-pol...
Washington’s Corruption Has Created Another Humanitarian Crisis in Puerto Rico
The island’s earthquakes are its latest man-made disaster.
slate.com
February 9, 2026 at 1:59 AM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
Your Ring camera can scam passing dogs and compare them to databases of missing dogs and that’s heartwarming and there are absolutely no sinister implications that’s why the guy in the button-down and Dockers is soothing
February 9, 2026 at 2:10 AM
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nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
Cancun Ted over here argued that “partisanship is inherent and permissible in the districting process” in an amicus brief he filed with the Supreme Court in the Texas redistricting case last September. www.cornyn.senate.gov/wp-content/u...
February 7, 2026 at 4:16 AM
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kjhealy.co
Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.
February 5, 2026 at 1:07 PM
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normative.bsky.social
Since a lot of the coverage is omitting this detail: The Kennedy Center HAD a $250 million renovation and expansion just a few years ago, in 2019.
February 2, 2026 at 12:38 PM
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collinshughes.bsky.social
Before fame found them, Denzel Washington and Phylicia Rashad shared a New Federal Theater double bill. Way before “Black Panther,” Chadwick Boseman acted there.

An obituary for Woodie King Jr., who made the place — and talent-spotted “For Colored Girls.” (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/t...
Woodie King Jr., Impresario of Black Theater, Dies at 88
www.nytimes.com
February 2, 2026 at 11:43 PM
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mayor.nyc.gov
It’s your city, from the sidewalk to the skyline. The David Dinkins Municipal Building’s rooftop is open & free to everyone, starting this June.
February 2, 2026 at 8:25 PM
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ebharrington.bsky.social
Yup. Pregnancy & childbirth are still very much life-threatening activities for women, even those in great health with ready access to the best medical care.

It was a big surprise to learn this the hard way: whenever we celebrate my kid's birthday, it's always also "we narrowly escaped death" day.
bpermaculture.bsky.social Care of Earth and People Ensure A Future World 🌎 @bpermaculture.bsky.social · 12d
Sad. Risk of maternal death during pregnancy greatly underestimated, study finds, "The new analysis found that the mortality risk from pregnancy (including up to one year postpartum) is 44 to 70 times higher than the mortality risk from abortion" www.brown.edu/news/2026-01...
Risk of maternal death during pregnancy greatly underestimated, study finds
A new study comparing deaths of pregnant people and of those who have an abortion show that risk of death due to pregnancy is three times higher than previously estimated.
www.brown.edu
January 31, 2026 at 10:09 PM
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willmckinley.bsky.social
SCTV is on Internet Archive if you'd like to enjoy the early work of Catherine O'Hara and her fellow sketch comedy gods.

S1: archive.org/details/sctv...
S2: archive.org/details/sctv...
S3: archive.org/details/19-m...
S4-5: archive.org/details/66-s...
S6 + Cinemax: archive.org/details/sctv... #TVSky
The cast of SCTV
January 31, 2026 at 4:32 PM
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galaxykate.bsky.social
You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test

Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs)

Good tech.

Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales)

Bad tech.
January 31, 2026 at 6:57 AM
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futurehasbeen.bsky.social
If you’ve never seen Catherine O’Hara’s Katherine Hepburn impersonation, you’re in for a treat.
SCTV - Katharine Hepburn for Twillings Tea
YouTube video by SCTV
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January 30, 2026 at 6:21 PM
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courtneymilan.com
I think @sarahjeong.bsky.social said it's because they devalue women's labor and a LOT of this Scary Logistics stuff comes from people who don't understand that basically all of the civic life they enjoy is created with the help of free labor, largely by women.
mostlybree.kitrocha.com Mostly Leftist Supply Depot Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 17d
Tho I will say, in his defense, he's not the first person to be confused by how quickly the romance authors & readers can whip up finely tuned logistics out of nothing. 😂
naomikritzer.bsky.social Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 17d
I mostly just stay off Twitter altogether but after double checking that the Walter Hudson post was still up I ran across this and just had to share so the Romancelandians who bought hand warmers could hear about the PROFESSIONAL GRADE LOGISTICS.
January 26, 2026 at 1:48 AM
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carlbergstrom.com
It appears that this legend owns a little bookstore — and you can order books from him instead of Bezos. Link in next post.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18d
Protester in Minneapolis just before disappearing in gas: "Fuck you! Stop. Damn! I'm 70 years old and I'm fuckin' angry!"
January 25, 2026 at 5:45 PM
emoonz.bsky.social
Snow dog says "come on mom get moving!"
January 25, 2026 at 6:45 PM
emoonz.bsky.social
When should Pretti have notified authorities and shown his ID? When they first approached him spraying chemical irritants? While they were shoving him and another peaceful protestor to the ground? As they were punching and kicking him?
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18d
Chip Roy: "As someone who carries a weapon in TX, if I'm in front of law enforcement or if I get stopped, I tell them that. I tell them that I've got a concealed carry permit. I show them my ID. I tell them where the weapon is bc that's what we're supposed to do. That's not what I think I saw here"
January 25, 2026 at 12:40 AM
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rmayemsinger.bsky.social
We cannot believe one single word from our government. Nothing they say is real.
January 24, 2026 at 11:06 PM
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maragay.bsky.social
“I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate…”
January 24, 2026 at 10:51 PM
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polotek.bsky.social
People already working hard to prove how perfect Alex Pretti was. To show he didn't "deserve" to be killed. But it's a trap folks. You're only feeding into a dynamic where people who are considered lesser get no protection. You don't have to be an Alex Pretti to deserve to live.
January 24, 2026 at 8:17 PM
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jeremykaplowitz.com
sorry, but the Founding Fathers' original intent for the 2nd Amendment was always *just* to do school shootings
January 24, 2026 at 10:28 PM
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ositanwanevu.com
This random online comment from 2018 remains one of the last half-century's most important works of political commentary. crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time. For millenia, conservatism had no name, because no other model of polity had ever been proposed. “The king can do no wrong.” In practice, this immunity was always extended to the king’s friends, however fungible a group they might have been. Today, we still have the king’s friends even where there is no king (dictator, etc.). Another way to look at this is that the king is a faction, rather than an individual. As the core proposition of conservatism is indefensible if stated baldly, it has always been surrounded by an elaborate backwash of pseudophilosophy, amounting over time to millions of pages. All such is axiomatically dishonest and undeserving of serious scrutiny. Today, the accelerating de-education of humanity has reached a point where the market for pseudophilosophy is vanishing; it is, as The Kids Say These Days, tl;dr . All that is left is the core proposition itself — backed up, no longer by misdirection and sophistry, but by violence.
January 24, 2026 at 5:42 PM
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helenkennedy.bsky.social
This is such a cool illustration of how the Mercator map distorts the size of Greenland, which looks as big as the whole continent of Africa on that map but is actually the size of Mexico.
January 18, 2026 at 7:43 PM
emoonz.bsky.social
I don't even believe that Trump has *read* the art of the deal.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24d
Kevin Hassett on Greenland: "The president is the person who wrote 'The Art of the Deal' because he's so good at dealmaking, so I think right now it's a good time for cooler heads to prevail and for us to disregard the rhetoric and get to the table."
January 18, 2026 at 5:18 PM